Business conditions at the banks will not be swayed by the latent loss. |
If the economy stalled, Japanese banks would have a bad-loans problem all over again. |
Investment banking needs a go-getter attitude that Mitsubishi UFJ lacks. Its efforts to build up that business remain half-done. |
There's no comparison between foreign and Japanese banks. Local lenders have too little earning capacity. |
They have to find other ways to make money in Japan. Private banking was their best business, but they can't do that anymore. |